You can find information about gender by looking the word up in a dictionary. When you come across a new noun, always learn the word for the or a that goes with it to help you remember its gender.

el or un before a noun usually tells you it is masculine

la or una before a noun tells you it is feminine

For exceptions to these rules, seeArticles, page 11.

We refer to something as singular when we are talking about just one of them, and as plural when we are talking about more than one. The singular is the form of the noun you will usually find when you look a noun up in the dictionary. As in English, nouns in Spanish change their form in the plural.

Adjectives, articles and pronouns are also affected by whether a noun is singular or plural.

TipRemember that you have to use the right word for the, a and so on according to the gender of the Spanish noun.